Melqart

According to the Hyperuranicon, after the speech of Zedeos, the Calamar King, all the Ancient Ones accepted his suggestions, the suggestions of the Gods from the outer space. They accepted to leave this planet, escape from the Catastrophe, and choose twelve person with the mission to help the rest of the mankind to rebuild the civilization after the incoming Catastrophe.

Only one man refuses to do it. His name was Melqart.

Prince Melqart said no. He wouldn’t escape from the Earth; at the opposite, he would help the rest of the people of the Earth to face the Catastrophe. The Gods told him it was a mad idea, almost a suicide, if he wanted to help the other peoples of the Earth he could be in the number of the twelve ones.

He refused another time, he didn’t want no take refuge in a safe spot for three years while outside thousands and thousands of people were dying.

Because of this, Melqart left the islands inhabited by the Ancient Ones and went to the country of the Hauneubu, in the western coast of Europe.

Until the last hours before the Catastrophe, when the skies were going darker and the ground trembled, he continued to help the Hauneubu to build safe houses for how many people it was possible, working tireless.

Neverthless, some people refused his help, they didn’t believe his warning.

Why we have to believe this stranger? Is not he one from that people who is friend with the creatures from the sea? Perhaps he would trick us, and steal everything from us

According to the Hyperuranicon, these were the opinions of so many people, between the Haunabu. But other people believed Melqart, and they worked together with him to reinforce the walls of a tower in the main town of the Haunabu, day after day.

So, when the Catastrophe arrived, Melqart entered in the tower together with the people who believed him, and with their families. The tower of Melqart was no resistent like the Pyramids, but its octagonal shape resisted the devastations of the first days of the Catastrophe; the earthquakes, the terrible waves from the sea (the Hyperuranicon describes something that today we’d call a tsunami), the acid rain, the “fire rocks from the sky”.

After ten weeks inside the tower, Melqart and his believers had to go out, because they finished the food and the water. The sky was still dark, and everywhere they saw only mess and destruction. The tower was seriously damaged, but still unbroken; and they were still alive.

In the town almost everything was destroyed by the Catastrophe, despite the octagonal tower of Melqart. The survivors recognized Melqart as their saviour, they followed his guide, and they also started to call him as King Melqart, irrespective to the fact that he refused it. This few people under the guide of Melqart kept the flame of civilization on during the worst days of humanity, when the Ancient Ones were travelling in the sky and the twelve ones were lying safe under the walls of the big Pyramid.

One day, the day that the Sun come back, Melqart talked to his people at the door of the tower; he told them that they were brave. They survived. And their duty now was to find, save and help other survivors.

Now the only thing that we’ve got is this tower. This tower who saved us under its walls. Remember it. Because this tower will be a sign. A sign of the resistance e the restart of human civilization. This tower, made rock by rock, the only building still standing in this part of the world, shall became like the first pillar of our new World.

And because of this speech, from this moment anyone called the tower “The Pillar of Melqart”.

If the story of the Hyperuranicon is true, Melqart was one of the biggest hero of the history of mankind; and the memory of this hero could explain the devotion of all the people of the Mediterranean for a deity who the Phoenicians called Melqart and the Greeks Heracles.